The race, in three figures
The race, in words
59:58 won the Doubles Open division at Cape Town 1 2026 for Ben Le Cornu & Josh Oosthuisen, first of 308 men's teams.
The sandbag lunges were where this race was made, 1:31 ahead of the median. Paced to finish: the second half went 2:13 better against the middle of the field than the first. Time in the roxzone, 3:20, was faster than 99% of the field.
Cape Town 1 cost the whole field time: about 4:55 more than the average race this season, going by 270 teams who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 7:02Running 1 3:19v median −1:05
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Block 02 6:10Running 2 4:41v median −1:11
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Block 03 7:05Running 3 4:26v median −1:56
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Block 04 6:45Running 4 4:28v median −1:52
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Block 05 8:46Running 5 4:35v median −1:59
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Block 06 5:43Running 6 4:27v median −1:54
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Block 07 6:35Running 7 4:22v median −2:07
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Block 08 8:40Running 8 4:32v median −2:23
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 3:20
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 296
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 296 men's teams who finished.